Narratives for Nature, Regarding Nature

Foreword

Cheongju Museum of Art Daecheongho Narratives for Nature, Regarding Nature presents works from the collections of the Cheongju Museum of Art and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Art Bank on the theme of nature. This exhibition was organized to raise awareness of the value of nature, which is being damaged by industrialization and indiscriminate development in the era of climate crisis, and to heighten appreciation of its preciousness. Visitors can encounter works that address the existential value of nature and the relationship between humans and animals coexisting within it. Through humanity’s attitudes toward nature and the artists’ narratives about nature, the exhibition seeks to pose ecological questions for a sustainable environment.

Narratives for Nature, Regarding Nature is structured in three parts. Part 1, “It Was Always There,” deals with the current state of the Arctic Ocean and, through videos that embody the existential value of nature, invites us once again to reflect on the meanings of humans and nature, existence and time, and life and death. Part 2, “By Itself, Naturally,” presents landscapes that capture the materiality, dynamism, circularity, and temporality that can be found in nature, allowing us to slowly appreciate and sense the inner energy of nature that is not easily observed with the naked eye. Contemplating the most natural appearance of nature—that which exists of its own accord without external force added—we are invited to consider what we can do to protect it. Part 3, “Humans and Animals, That Relationship,” examines the relationship between humans and animals that have long coexisted within nature. Looking at animals that have lost their original form due to human desire and the distorted, unstable aspects of humanity inherent within that loss, the exhibition revisits the path toward symbiosis between humans and nature.

We hope that, by viewing the aspects of nature from multiple angles in this exhibition, visitors will reflect on what nature means to us. We also seek to impress upon audiences the fact that human actions that disregard ecology—such as environmental pollution and the destruction of biodiversity—ultimately return to us. Coexistence with nature has become not a choice but a necessity for us. Through this exhibition, we hope to create time for contemplating the direction in which we will move forward together with nature.

* Source: Cheongju Museum of Art Daecheongho

일시: 2023년 11월 7일2024년 3월 3일 화-일 10:0018:00
장소: 청주시립대청호미술관
참여작가: 강호생, 권도연, 금중기, 김상경, 김주연, 박정렬, 박찬용, 배윤환, 손광주, 안원태, 윤석원, 윤예제, 이록현, 이재범, 이종목, 이지영, 정정엽, 지용호, 최은태

주최 및 주관 : 청주시립대청호미술관
전시협조 : 국립현대미술관 미술은행

* 참여작품: <파이돈>